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Occasionally, IP victims devise make-shift methods for coping with their problems. One high-priced middle-age executive believes deep down that he is a child masquerading as an adult. His solution: after an arduous day of pretending to be a grownup, he rushes home to eat Popsicles and play video games. It works for him, but for most IP sufferers Clance and Harvey would prescribe more standard measures: therapy, self-help groups and understanding friends. Clance also suggests that her patients remember a useful observation of W. Somerset Maugham's: "Only a mediocre person is always at his best...
Houston sports a pornucopia of nude encounter parlors, nude dancing clubs, hard-core movie houses and so-called adult bookstores that offer private booths in which patrons can watch 25˘ peep-show movies and engage in anonymous sex with other patrons through holes cut in the walls. Because of the dearth of zoning laws, the porn traffic, instead of being centered in one "combat zone," as in Boston or Washington, turns up everywhere, even near churches, schools and nurseries. "I think Houston is getting a reputation for being soft on this kind of thing," says City Councilman Frank Mancuso, whose...
...spent most of his adult life on college campuses, teaching and writing: poems, critical essays, reviews, a novel (Pictures from an Institution), translations and children's books. His visible eccentricities were mild. He appeared vain about his looks. As a young man, he turned himself out like a river boat gambler, slim, dark, natty and sporting a pencil mustache; in his late 30s he raised a bushy, patriarchal beard. When he was excited, his high, piercing voice had a tendency to rise in volume and exaggerate his Tennessee twang. For the most part, though, he kept his inner fires banked...
...million this year; spin-offs, paraphernalia and even a TV show are in the works. And Makow is keeping busy by developing a children's edition, because, he says, "they are concerned about right and wrong, and this gives great insight on what it's like to be an adult...
Harper, who played the adult Junior, conversed with Mitchell about “living your dream” after the film. Harper, whose untraditional career path has brought him marked success in his life, noted the need for individuals to make that first, sometimes difficult step in the process...